Is it truth, fiction or plain stupidity that the White House is employing to defend and combat criticism of Obama's plan to Mirandize captured terrorists? We are now publicly being given information on what intelligence officials are learning from the Christmas Day Bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
After taking withering fire from both political parties on their "50 minutes of interrogation" before reading the suspect his Miranda rights, the Administration is now trying to justify and give credibility to their position.
They are basically fighting back the criticism looking for some sort of vindication. Suddenly we are finding out that a terrorist suspect who has legal rights is now talking again and even better, they are letting us know how they did it.
ABC NEWS reports that on Tuesday a senior administration official confirmed that the family of Umar Farouq Abdulmuttalab, was called upon to get their son to start cooperating with federal authorities in sharing information about Al Qaeda. They also report that he has been cooperating with authorities and sharing intelligence information since last Thursday.
What a coincidence. Right when Obama's taking much deserved heat on his National Security decisions. We now know that we are gaining much needed information from Umar. Guess what? Now Al Qaeda knows too.
I don't know how much truth or fiction is going on here but I do care about the stupidity in issuing such information over the public airways. By trying to gain political vindication on Obama's policies they have endangered an entire family that supposedly was called upon to help authorities. Do they think that Al Qaeda doesn't watch TV? The terrorists don't need inside operatives, they have senior White House administration officials doing that work for them. What now? Do we bring the entire family over and place them in a witness protection program? This whole episode is so blatantly absurd one has to wonder if it is even true...some grand story to leak to the press. If it is true, then the Obama Administration has placed their image and interests ahead of the safety of others which is unacceptable and irresponsible and the liberals and media pundits calling it proof that the President's way works are simply condoning such behavior. Never mind that you are endangering others.
This is just another example of why the American people don't trust this administration when it comes to security issues. Instead of admitting their mistakes and correcting, they confront a bad situation and make it worse, once again proving the "Peter Principal" applies to everything this administration does.
Edisto Joe
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